von Heyking, John(Konigshausen & NeumannArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)

This paper focuses on the way ... Eranos scholars used Augustinian symbols to
explicate the tensional relationship between time and eternity, finitude and infinity, creation
and God, and human being and God that Eranos ...

von Heyking, John(Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005-11)

Western observers need to be able to understand the ideological and religious overtones
of the current situation in Iran. Ahmadinejad’s peculiar references to the Twelfth Imam
are no mere eccentricity to be taken lightly. ...

von Heyking, John(Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005-11)

The riots of Ramadan strike at the basis of the French state and its political culture with
possibly greater significance than the 1968 riots.The riots of Ramadan constitute a revolutionary moment for Europe, and people ...

Paper presented at "The Cooperation of Church & State Conference" for the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal, Calgary on June 8-9, 2006. "Ever since Jesus stated his kingdom was not of this world, Christians have been ...

von Heyking, John(InterimArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-09)

When Canadian parliamentarians reconvene the same-sex marriage debate this fall, they may wish to ponder the enormity of changing a law whose simple change affects the basic functioning of society. The political battle to ...

von Heyking, John(Valparaiso UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of LethbridgeValparaiso University, 2007)

Americans, even when not stranded on their rooftops, seem to have lost the art of friendship. They seem to be unsure just what to do with a friend. They know how to unite their bodies, but not their souls. They seem to ...

von Heyking, John; Moon, Richard(University of British Columbia PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)

Book review of Law and religious pluralism in Canada edited by Richard Moon. The essays in this volume ponder the nature of religious freedom and pluralism in Canada. In addition to considering recent case law, the authors ...

von Heyking, John(International Political AnthropologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)

Aristotle’s friendship teaching has been called the “peak” of his moral teaching. His understanding of sunaisthesis (joint perception/awareness) as the activity of virtue friendship has been called the “peak of the peak”. ...

von Heyking, John(Conference on ”Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, Right for Unification: International and Russian Experience of Application: The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-04)

One of the reasons why religious pluralism flourishes to the degree it does in Canada and the United States is because, as immigrants, we have inherited a cultural attitude of
healthy skepticism toward what politics can ...

von Heyking, John(Arts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-04)

Canadians struggle with 2 questions concerning education & political order. The meaning of secular & meaning of civic education. The civilizational question & its place in the particularities of the Canadian regime

von Heyking, John(Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-12)

Canada faces a political crisis, and potentially a crisis of national unity, that it has never seen before. Harper’s Conservatives won a minority government in October. Yet, in just six short weeks, his government is facing ...

von Heyking, John(Redeemer Pacific CollegeArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)

"Modernity constitutes a completion over antiquity in the sense that it establishes the incompleteness of philosophy in a way antiquity failed to see. If Socrates represents the greatestinsights of antiquity, Kierkegaard ...

"Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the Supreme
Court, is the focal point for an evocation of civil religion ... The manner in which important constitencies speak of the Charter ... reveals an attempt ...

von Heyking, John(Intercollegiate Studies InstituteArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009-04)

Our imprudence is related to our confusion about the nature of
law, which, as Rémi Brague demonstrates in his The Law of God:
The Philosophical History of an Idea, derives from the modern rejection
of certain presuppositions ...

von Heyking, John(Southern Utah University PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)

Chapter contained in the book The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education". One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable even of conversing. Critics such ...

von Heyking, John(Southern Utah University PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)

To be a teacher of the humanities at a university means participating in a
community dedicated to enquiring into the good for human beings. As members of a
community of teachers, scholars, and students, we share an ...

Examines the confusion that multiculturalism has wrought in Canadian political life by considering 1) multiculturalism as a national symbol within the context of the postmaterialist shift from the politics of interests to ...

von Heyking, John(Intercollegiate Studies InstituteArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010-04)

Walsh’s anamnesis moves among modernity’s three pillars:
rights, science, and the turn to existence (MPR xii). All three volumes
consider these three pillars with varying degrees of intensity.
Additionally, his reflections ...